June 27, 2014, Friday

Where does a candidate go to find ''wise counsel and invaluable experience'' for his campaign? Fred D. Thompson has turned to his mentor, to a daughter of the vice president and to a former Virginia senator whose defeat last fall contributed to the...

To the Editor: Re Paul Krugman's recent columns on health care reform (Jan. 1, 5 and 12): We agree with Mr. Krugman that ''reform is in the air.'' While some think that Mr. Krugman's solution -- Medicare for all -- would help us address the...

Ten weeks into his term, Senator Bill Frist has adopted a vastly different approach as majority leader, preferring the broad themes and political gestures favored by the White House and conservatives to the pragmatic, back-room tasks favored by his...

March 13, 2003, Thursday

Her American husband and two daughters are in North Korea, pawns in a struggle between North Korea, Japan and the United States. An unwilling celebrity in the Japanese press, Hitomi Soga has seen her two-week trip home to Japan stretch into two...

The United States Ambassador to Japan, Howard H. Baker Jr., said today that Washington could respond with surprising speed to engage with North Korea if that country took verifiable steps to dismantle its nuclear weapons program. ''I think, in my...

Though the Senate has never before changed hands in the middle of a session, Tom Daschle, the new majority leader, confronts problems and opportunities similar to those that faced Bob Dole, Robert C. Byrd, Howard H. Baker Jr. and Lyndon B. Johnson. ...